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Canadian Statesman (Bowmanville, ON), 8 Sep 1982, p. 18

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2 The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, September 8,1962 Section Two ( Editorial Comment The Tension Mounts The tension in the air these days is almost as noticeable as the first chill winds of autumn. As negotiations between General Motors and the United Auto Workers go down to the wire, all we can do is wait anxiously. So life goes on. Chores get done and we go to work each day. But in the back of our minds, we're wondering what's going to happen on September 14 when the time for talking runs out. Any impending strike at General Motors makes the community anxious. But the negotiations of 1982 are continuing in an atmosphere of almost unbelievable pressure. First of all, the generally sick economy makes the prospect of a prolonged strike all the more worrisome. Secondly, the announcement from the GM president last week adds an urgent and ominous tone to the proceedings. The suggestion that the giant automaker might consider withdrawing from Canada has raised the stakes in the economic poker game now underway. The bargaining doesn't revolve around just another contract in the long parade of collective agreements between management and labour. The union and management are now bargaining over the future of the auto industry in Canada. The fate of thousands of jobs, several cities, and a large slice of Canada's economic pie may hang in the balance. One would be naive to think that the announcement by the GM president last week would not affect the bargaining activity. But one has to also ask if tne company position is a bluff. What steps could the Canadian government take to prevent the < loss of GM assets? Where would Oshawa be left in the event of a shutdown? These a ttestions, and many others start us linking the unthinkable. Never before has the suggestion of General Motors cutting or curtailing Canadian operations been a factor in the automotive scene. The very existence of the auto industry in Canada is not something that we can take for granted any longer. And, of course, the old issues also remain. On the one hand, the UAW is being asked by government and industry to limit its demand and grant concessions. The problem is that the inflation rates and mortgage rates are a world away from suggested guidelines for restraint. It's fine to talk about concessions, but only when the bankers a\po talk about concessions on mortgages or loans, the union might say. GM can reply that the auto industry is in danger and that tough business decisions must be made. A company cannot exist as a make- work project for its employees. It has a responsibility to compete in the marketplace and to make a profit. In bad times, it needs the support and dedication of the workers who benefited from it during the good days. And so the arguments go round and round. The two ideas appear to be headed for a collision course. But one must hope for the best. There's no point in expecting the worst until it actually happens. Meanwhile, the outcome of these negotiations will only be decided by that group of persons who sit at the conference table today and bargain for the future of Canada's auto industry. As one GM worker commented "I only hope that cooler heads prevail." So say we all. Queen's Park Report by Gord Cochrane If the Davis Conservatives hoped for an extended period of favourable publicity by delaying announcement of provincial wage and price controls, they have certainly achieved their goal. Given the protracted gestation period, the long awaited controls program, now expected to be unveiled within a week or two, must be a political masterpiece. The controls must amount to something more than simple limits on public service wage increases. In other words, a full, across the board program restraining price increases of provincially regulated corporations and one which takes in all working people. You need look no further than the Premier's own words to see thpt we are being set up for full scale controls. In recent weeks, Bill Davis hasn't made any bones about his intention to act alone if Ottawa isn't prepared to. extend its "six-and- five" program to the private sector. The momentum started in June. Within days of the six-and-five program being announced, Davis and his fellow premiers were called to Ottawa, where they met with federal officials who shared with them the grim forecasts on Canada's economic prospects. All ten premiers seemed truly impressed by those projections when they emerged from the meeting; none more so than Bill Davis. He suddenly became a convert to the controls school. Earlier statements denying consideration of controls were themselves suddenly being denied. That was two months ago. And, while the hints have become more emphatic, nothing has happened. Ontario is still no closer to the program Davis seems convinced will pull us but of our economic misfortune. Whether it's the sheer complexity of nailing down the provisions or the need to clarify the legal basis, it's beginning to look like Davis and company are dithering. The other provinces have made their decisions, but not Ontario. Still, some think the government is waiting for this week's meeting of the International Monetary Fund in Toronto to be wrapped up before announcing controls. It may be that provincial officials are timid about how finance ministers from around the world might react. (Or it could be that theyHl all be spending so much time at I.M.F. receptions.) Of course, the Legislature will have to be called back into session in order to pass the enabling legislation. That could happen as late as thè second week of October, when the Legislature normally convenes. Or it could happen earlier, with only two or three days' notice. Once MPPs are back at their desks, Davis will face little æ ition to his controls package. al leader David Peterson has already stated that his party supports full scale controls for Ontario. And, it doesn't seem likely that the NDP will stand in the way of popular legislation for very long. Certainly, a filibuster of more than a couple of days is out of the question. / $t|* (Katmbfan Statesman Durham County's Great Family Journal Established 126 yeera ego In 1854 Alto Incorporating The Bowmanville News The Newcastle Independent The Orono Newt Second clett mall registration number 1561 Produced every Wednesday by THE JAMES PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED 62-66 King St, W., Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 3K9 JOHN M. JAMES RICHARD A. JAMES Editor -- Publisher Assistant Publisher GEO. P. MORRIS BRIAN PURDY DONALD BISHOP Business Mgr. Advertising Mgr. Plant Mgr. 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V Toward Christmas, we hear that rather maudlin line only too often, "Christmas is for the children." And commercially it is, as we go out and buy them 10 times as many presents as we got when we were kids. But I'd like to amend that slogan somewhat, and make it, "Summer is •for the children." I'm talking from experience. As summer waned, I was waning quite a bit along with it. I've been swimming twice, haven't even had my golf clubs out of the bag, and haven't dipped a fishing line in the water. Sounds like a total blank, but it wasn't. Instead of participating, I was coaching. Two grandsons, eight and, six, were to spend July with us/ Four weeks. I knew it was going to be hectic, but I figured we could stand it. And we did. If "standing it" means being on your knees when they left. But it was a great experience. For the kids. They went to day camp. The older one learned to dive like a seal, the younger to swim. They were already con artists, but honed their skills on their grandfather by developing a sudden and overwhelming thirst every time we got near a pop stand, and a similar hunger every time they came within smelling distance of french fries. Migawd, how those kids can eat! Each of them eats more than my wife and I put together. Our grocery bill shot up astronomically. How their mother is going to feed them in another couple of years I have no idea. But they weren't the only ones to learn a lot during the summer. I did. I learned, or re-learned, a lot about what makes little boys tick, what makes them suddenly sullen .and silent, or gabby and gregarious, what drives them into a sudden fist fight out of , the blue, and how to threaten, coerce, and tease them into going to bed after 14 hours of non-stop activity. I learned how to stand still and allow them to climb me like a ladder, so that I could serve as a diving board. I learned a new type of baseball in which six hits and you're out. I learned that, with the utmost concentration, I can beat 8-year-old Nikov in chess. I learned a good deal about soccer: that you get your feet wet when you play on the back lawn while the dew is heavy. I learned that kids will eat a peanut butter and honey sandwich at any hour of the day or night. I learned that if you give kids a centimeter, they want a kilometer. I learned that, even at eight, boys these days are conscious of their hair-do. After a number of experiences, I learned that there's no point whatever in buying them a new gimmick. They wrecked three Mr. John G. Goodwin, Chairman Central Lake Ontario Conservation Conservation Authority 1650 Dundas St. E. Whitby, Ontario Dear Sir: In 1971 the Pine Ridge Cross Country Ski Club was formed as a family club, with a top priority being the promotion of safe and enjoyable cross country skiing. Since that time, our club members have donated thousands of hours to lay out, maintain and improve ski trails on public land for the safe and enjoyable use of not only our club members, but the general public as well, in 1976, in co-operation with CLOCA, our club members laid out, brushed and marked trails in an area that has some of the best topography and snow conditions in the Pine Ridge tourist area, namely the Long Sault Conservation Area. Through the continued improvement and maintenance maintenance of those trails by our club and the promotion of them by CLOCA, we have seen their use grow from a few hundred to 5,000 to 6,000 people per skiing season, (based on car counts and compared to studies at other conservation areas) 1 We commend the CLOCA board and their staff for the promotion of the passive uses of the Long Sault Conservation Area through their publications, publications, providing of picnic tables, barbecues, bird feeders, feeders, trail signs and markers, the improved parking and access access controls and guided nature walks. During this time .we have enjoyed an excellent working relationship with Mr. Campbell and his staff. We were utterly dismayed and deeply disturbed to learn that on July 13, 1982, the CLOCA Conservation Areas Advisory Board approved a recommendation to extend the hunting season from the current current closing of December 15, to a closing of February 28, Why woultf CLOCA promote uses that are totally incompatible incompatible and constitute a potentially potentially severe safety hazard to skiers and their families? While we do not totally agree with the allowing of hunting in conjunction with the other activities that CLOCA has promoted in the Long Sault Conservation Area, we were satisfied with the existing policy which seemed the fairest to all, of allowing hunting from September September 15 through December 15; a policy arrived at in the fall of 1981 after considerable publicity in the local press and extensive discussion with the interested groups. This policy allowed hunting access during the prime hunting hunting season in the fall, when the game birds are released into the area and safe skiing during the prime winter skiing season. It has been our experience that during the winter hunters tend to use the ski trails as (cheap) tennis rackets out of four in two days, and quickly destroyed other instruments of pleasure by stepping on them, using them to smash something, or pulling them apart to see how they work. I re-learned how an older brother can look after a younger, and how a younger tries to emulate everything the older one does, at the risk of breaking his neck. I went through it with my kid brother years ago, but I had forgotten. I detested him because.he was always following me and my gang around, even though I'd threaten him with horrible things if he didn't stop. But I never let anyone bully him. And he stood up for me. Each time I'd get in a fight in the schoolyard, which was fairly often, he'd stand by and cry his head off. Similarly, Nik despises Balind at times, but when there's a crisis (chest cold, wasp stings, a bad tumble) he puts his arm around him, coos sympathy like a mother, and leads him to Gran or Grandad for treatment. 3 ical. They were playing all one day. I sat watching and waiting for a window to be smashed. Suddenly Balind began screaming with pain. He'd ventured into a bee's nest that we weren't aware of, as he pursued a triple, and had been stung twice. Nikov dragged him in, arm around his shoulders, "Poor Balind. The bees stung him." I dredged up an old memory of putting baking soda on bee stings. We did, along with ice cubes, and 10 minutes later we were out slaughtering those bees with spray, Nikov killing them mercilessly. I mentioned coaching. Maybe I'll switch to teaching Physical Education this fall. I taught the little guy to keep his eye on the ball, not his brother, when he was hitting baseballs to be fielded. He got it, and was soon hitting them deep into the jungle around our backyard. I taught them not to kick a hard soccer ball directly at the head of their grandmother. I taught them that when you were diving off a rock, you made sure you weren't diving onto another rock. I could go on, but it's boring. But I learned one more thing. When you have Grandkids for a weekend, you're delighted to see them, and overjoyed when they leave. But the longer you have them, the more you miss them when they leave. No more Balind saying: "I don't want to live in a basement apartment. I just want to live in an ordinary house like this." He wanted to stay until Christmas. No more Nikov, cooking very carefully scrambled eggs For the gang and apologizing about their texture. No more two little towheads side by side, sleeping like exhausted angels. Or devils. access routes and sometimes discharge their guns on or beside the trails. This can be not only dangerous, but extremely extremely frightening to skiers who can appear very quickly around a bend in the trail and especially so to young children. children. We disagree with the claim that it is the only area where you can go hunting in this vicinity - it is the only CLOCA area. There are other game bird releases in the Durham Region, We have talked to several hunters, some who are members of our ski club, who no longer hunt that area due to the lack of game, but still hunt in this vicinity through arrangements with local land- owners. It is also our understanding understanding that the hunters who use the Long Sault Conservation Conservation Area number less than a hundred, while people in other activities number in the thousands. thousands. We recognize that most hunters arc very safety con scious and exercise the utmost care when discharging their firearms, but one inadvertent accident could be irreversible. The winter use of the area will continue to grow since it has some of the best cross country ski conditions and trails in this area. It is also excellent for shift workers since it is close. All studies that we are familiar familiar with, such as from the Ontario Trails Council, do not recommend, for very obvious reasons, the combining of hunting and skiing activities in the same area. The Gana- raska Conservation Authority, for example, has recognized this and has segregated these imcompatible activities in the Ganaraska Forest Conservation Conservation Area. We urge the CLOCA board to very seriously consider the ramifications of the proposed extension of the hunting season in the Long Sault Conservation Conservation Area. We trust that CLOCA will not set up and promote an unsafe environment for the citizens of this area, who use and enjoy the Long Sault Conservation Conservation Area. Respectfully D.H. Samis President Pine Ridge Cross Country Ski Club Dear Sir, I want to extend our Association's Association's sincere thanks for your continued assistance by running our monthly meeting notices for us. Due to this most generous help for our Chapter, we are able to reach osto- mates (colostomy; ileostomy; or urostomy patients) from many regions that would be more difficult and even impossible impossible for us. Once again, please accept our most sincere sincere appreciation for your help. Your's in helping others, Our Thanks, Mrs, Louisa Anderson, Pres andP.R,

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